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Contentment |
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| "Contentment is not
happiness. An oyster may be contented." |
| --
Christian Bovee
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| "Be content with your lot; one
cannot be first in everything." |
| -- Aesop (620-560 BC), Greek
fabulist |
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"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented
with what he would like to have." |
| -- Socrates |
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"When you are
content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will
respect you." |
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--
Lao-Tzu
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| “He is poor who does not feel
content.” |
| --
Japanese Proverb |
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| "This life is not for
complaint, but for satisfaction." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau |
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| "Contentment
is not a luxury if it is temporary and rejuvenating. Otherwise, it
is
suspect. The time for longer, more everlasting contentment is in the
autumn of our lives." |
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--
Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer
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| "It is regrettable that, among the Rights of
Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten." |
| -- Socrates |
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| "If a man has come to that
point where he is so content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do
any more or be any more, he is in a state of which he ought to be changed into a
mummy." |
| --
Henry
Ward Beecher
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| "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he
who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by
changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in
fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove." |
| -- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84),
British writer, lexicographer |
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"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are
famous preservers of youthful looks." |
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-- Charles Dickens (1812-70),
English novelist, fiction writer
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| "People who cannot invent and
reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures,
secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out." |
| -- Warren G. Bennis (b. 1925),
American writer, educator |
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| "True contentment is the power
of getting of any situation all that there is in it." |
| -- G. K. Chesterton |
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| "Please
write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity,
letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back
to my own with greater contentment." |
| -- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey |
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"Nine requisites for
contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess
your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is
accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to
move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the
things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future." |
| --
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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